Football’s First Defender

This season's Liverpool team, in terms of staffing, is definitely the strongest level in Europe today! Although the signings of several players in the summer transfer window were somewhat dissatisfied with the pace of Liverpool's game, for example, the striker Keane, who was extremely hot in Tottenham last season, came to Liverpool less than half a season, and was lowered again. The price was sold back to Tottenham, but the strength of Liverpool's starting lineup has not been greatly affected!

The main goalkeeper has the excellent Reina in charge! The Spanish goalkeeper, who has guarded the goal for Liverpool in recent years, has made great achievements! At the peak of his career!

In the midfield position, Xavi Alonso, Gerrard, Mascherano, these three midfielders are all famous midfield star players in world football. Unlike Chelsea's defensive midfielder combination, Liverpool's midfielders all have good offensive capabilities!

On the forward line, the most important thing for Liverpool is of course the Spanish golden boy Torres! This striker has been killing all sides in Liverpool this season. No one can ignore how such an excellent striker will cause trouble to his defense!

The rest of the main players are also international level players, including Yang Feng's former teammate Skrtel, Liverpool legendary central defender Carragher, Spanish international Real Madrid player Arbeloa and so on!

Although this season's Liverpool lacks stamina in the league and has not maintained its leading advantage in the standings at the beginning of the season, it seems that it is still unable to win the first league championship of its own team in the Premier League era, but you cannot deny that this Liverpool is in some competitions. Great play in key games!

After all, Benitez's tactical preparation takes time. For some mid-range teams in the league, it is impossible for Benitez to allow the team to switch tactical styles freely in just one week in every league game!

But for some key games, tough battles, and games that give Liverpool more preparation time, Benitez can fully demonstrate his tactical talent!

You know, just two weeks ago, Liverpool beat the "Red Devils" Manchester United 4-1 in an away game at Old Trafford, and completed a double kill against their rival Manchester United this season!

Even if Manchester United has a high probability of winning the Premier League three consecutive championships this season, being double-killed by Liverpool this season will definitely make this Premier League championship season a lot less glamorous!

Chelsea is cautiously preparing for the two rounds with Liverpool! Hiddink, on the other hand, is considering whether to use some unexpected tactics to beat Liverpool by surprise at Anfield!

Faced with Benitez's targeted arrangements, as strong as Manchester United, Hiddink always suffers in the game. Hiddink doesn't want to be passive, especially in the away game. Then there is really no place to reason!

At the routine press conference before the Champions League, Hiddink very modestly put a high hat on Liverpool and Benitez!

"Liverpool are the best team in Europe at the moment and no team would want to play against them at this time. And Chelsea have lost to Liverpool twice this season. Our goal at Anfield is to get one point, but this It will be very difficult. Because Benitez is very good at dealing with this knockout format."

Hiddink hopes to use his low profile to make Liverpool proud and despise Chelsea, and hopes that this move can successfully arouse the fighting spirit of Chelsea players, so that all players can use their 100% strength to come to Anfield and fight for the knockout rounds. Lay the foundation for your promotion!

At this time, Liverpool, because they just defeated their mighty rival Manchester United in the league, and won 5 consecutive victories in all competitions, they do have the capital of arrogance!

It's just that in the second round of the last round of the knockout match against Real Madrid in the Champions League, Liverpool's core midfielder Mascherano received a yellow card. This game will be suspended, which is the biggest impact on Liverpool! But at Anfield, Liverpool is not afraid of any opponent. Any opponent at home in the terrifying Anfield will be wiped out by the "Red Army" Liverpool!

On the day of the game, Hiddink dragged his starting list to the last moment before handing it over to UEFA officials. In the starting lineup of this game, Hiddink finally decided to take a risk and made a huge change. When the team announced the starting lineup a few days ago, it was beyond the expectations of everyone in the Chelsea team!

In the last round of the away game against Newcastle in the Premier League, Hiddink rested Drogba, Ballack, and the main right back Bosingwa who was almost full-time this season. Stay strong and prepare to keep the three of them at their fullest to face Liverpool!

However, no one expected that among the three, there was actually a smoke bomb prepared by Hiddink!

Bosingwa! In the crucial first round of the game, Bosingwa was pushed on the bench by Hiddink and replaced by Serbian Ivanovic!

In this game, Russian coach Guus Hiddink chose to let Ivanovic, who was also deeply impressed by himself while watching the Russian Super League match, start the game and act as a surprise soldier for Chelsea's change!

When commentators from all over the world got the starting lists of the two teams, the first reaction was that Chelsea's Bosingwa was injured? But when I saw Bosingwa appearing in the substitute lineup, I felt that Hiddink must have lost his mind. At such a critical moment of the game, he actually broke the slightly stable lineup of his team in the away game by himself! The one who chose to play was Ivanovic who played very few times and did not perform very well on the court!

The position of head coach does require great courage and courage when changes are needed! Hiddink, the "firefighting" coach, doesn't have to think so much, he just needs to think about his professional football in these few months, he needs the most suitable personnel for the current game!

Except that the right back unexpectedly chose to use Ivanovic! On the forward line, Hiddink also abandoned Anelka, who was in hot form this season, but chose to use Drogba and Wannian substitute striker Kalou!

Lampard, Ballack, Malouda and Essien are in the midfield position, each performing his duties!

On the back line, except for Ivanovic, the surprise player, the left back is still Ashley Cole, and the center back is Yang Feng and Terry's partner!

The goalkeeper position is still the stable Czech goalkeeper Cech!

442 formation, the most surprising is the appearance of Ivanovic, followed by Kalou replaced Anelka and got the starting chance!

It's just that no one would have thought that Chelsea's starting list is a 442 formation, and the player configuration is also inclined to the 442 formation used in these games, but in fact, Chelsea is preparing to play a more powerful 433 formation in this game. !

In this game, Malouda is not in the midfield position as usual, acting as a wing attacker on the wing, but the position is even earlier, and Hiddink has arranged him as a winger!

Hiddink made these three changes in the hope that he can take the lead in the away game!

Benitez's nickname is a master tactician, but a master tactician is not a prophet!

In view of Chelsea's rich reserves of midfielders, Benitez did foresee many possibilities for Chelsea's tactical changes, and made many corresponding tactical preparations!

But let a substitute right back Ivanovic, who has played very little time this season and only played a few league games before, start the game, which is not what Benitez expected!

For a coach like Benitez who likes to delve into tactics, what he is best at is actually planning ahead and making preparations for many possible situations before the game, but when faced with emergencies, on the spot, he may not be able to Countermeasures for unexpected situations in a short time!

One hour before the start of the game, after Liverpool got Chelsea's starting list, Benitez was also stunned, puzzled by the sudden substitution of the opponent's right back, but after all, football games are not strategy simulation games. Understand the opponent's intentions, then stick to your own style of play to break through the opponent's conspiracy, that's fine! This is Anfield, the home of Liverpool's devils!

Mascherano's yellow card suspension may indeed have a great impact on Liverpool's midfield defense, but the main purpose of Liverpool sitting at Anfield in this game is of course to attack. , and strive to accumulate enough leading advantages to lay the foundation for going to Stamford Bridge a week later!

Liverpool's lineup selection is still the usual 442 lineup this season!

Goalkeeper Reina!

On the defense line, Arbeloa, Skrtel, Carragher, and Aurelio lined up from right to left!

Midfielder, due to Mascherano's suspension, Lucas got the chance to start! The other three are Gerrard, Harvey Alonso, and left midfielder Riera!

The double forwards are of course Torres and the Dutch international Dirk Dirk!

As for the right winger position of Dirk, he can retreat a little at any time and change the formation to 451 to deal with different situations on the field!

In the player channel before the game, Yang Feng also had a chat with his teammates at Zenit last season, Skrtel, and the two chatted about the bad weather in England, unpalatable food, and A lot of uncomfortable topics about living in the UK!

Of course, it was just chatting, the battle was about to start, the two of them silenced after that, and devoted themselves to the preparations for the game!

In the 2008/09 season, the quarter-finals of the UEFA Champions League, the first leg of the match between Liverpool and Chelsea will start at Anfield Stadium on time!